Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2014/iii/paper-3/6/ii/solution

For the Kronecker quiver representation with arrows and , an endomorphism satisfies and . Solving the second equation gives
Thus this representation is indecomposable but is not a brick: its endomorphism ring is a local endomorphism ring, while the nonzero endomorphism is nilpotent.
For a general indecomposable non-brick, the proof of Ringel lemma on bricks finds a proper indecomposable submodule with nonzero self-extensions. Repetition in strictly decreasing dimension reaches a brick module with . The linked proof supplies the minimal-rank, retraction and hereditary-extension steps.
Now assume the Tits form of a quiver is positive definite. If an indecomposable were not a brick, this would give the contradiction
Hence is a brick. For its nonzero dimension vector , positivity and integrality then imply
Thus every indecomposable in this case is a rigid brick. This deduction uses the Ringel lemma on bricks and the Ringel form, without requiring the full Gabriel theorem.

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